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Arekkusu
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Message 58 of 62

14 May 2011 at 5:33pm | IP Logged

paranday wrote:

Mei190 wrote:

Unlike Arekkusu, I am not doing the prediction method, I think this
will all come with time, eventually everything should just click in place.

If I claim to be studying the pitch accent free Miyakonojō dialect, will Arekkusu and y'all wag your fingers
disapprovingly at me? (Thanks for the map!)

If you claim to study all the other features of that
dialect as well, I'll allow it ;)
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Hampie
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Message 59 of 62

14 May 2011 at 7:20pm | IP Logged

Unless these polyglots are trying to learn people stuff, telling them that they have perfect accent, what is there to
gain by rating them unless they asked for a rating of their accent? Is there a competition? I know many that settle
for ‹understandable› and work on fluency and wocabulary instead.
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slucido
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Message 60 of 62

14 May 2011 at 9:57pm | IP Logged

Hampie wrote:

It's a type of wasting time that someone call entertainment. :o)
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Kafea
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Message 61 of 62

31 May 2011 at 11:51am | IP Logged

Arekkusu wrote:

szastprast wrote:

slucido wrote:

I do not like this forum.

You are always against my heros and trying to destroy them.

I am not trying to destroy anybody! I do admire Huliganov, he is an excellent teacher of Russian. And he DOES know Polish quite well. Only his speaking and writing are not as good as he thinks they are. They are not native like at all. They are just intermediate, just like my English, for instance.
Many a polyglot overestimates his/her own skills. That's always puzzled me.
I don't know many languages, but I know what I know and what I don't.

Neither his Polish nor your English are at an intermediate level. Come on, now.

Well, there you have it. He is, after all, a fluent speaker. Your English is terrific and your spelling is perfect. If his Polish is as good as your English? Bravo, I like the dude. He's a fun person!
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xander.XVII
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Message 62 of 62

06 June 2011 at 8:22pm | IP Logged

As far as I'm concerned, I could speak just about Torbyrne whose videos I saw on
youtube(I also watched Luca's ones notwithstanding being he Italian I can't judge him).
Well, I am an Italian native speaker, so I feel only being able to judge from the point
of view of this language.
Torbyrne's Italian is almost perfect in grammar, he is pretty fast, he doesn't hesistate
neither stop talking in any case.
As for accent he is quite good, his intonation isn't ever correct(and this is more than
normal) but any Italian would be able to understand him perfectly.
Despite his ability, he doesn't seem a native speaker however.

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